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Iggle Piggle

Original Poster:

157 posts

175 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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I cannot remember how far in my distant memroy I played the bloodfest Syndicate on my old Amiga but it appears that EA have brought it back to life:

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Syndicat...

this is one for my watch list now!

Highrisedrifter

754 posts

183 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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This month's PC Gamer gave it 55% I believe.

Not a good score.

Iggle Piggle

Original Poster:

157 posts

175 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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poo, it looks so good and I had that nostalgia. That was a seriously good blood fest on the old platform!

motorizer

1,540 posts

200 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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Syndicate wars was the first game I ever played where you could destroy absoulutely everything, in glorious 3D ..most games still dont have that now..way ahead of its time..I have fond memories of blowing up monorail tracks and watching as the train came crashing to earth...or blowing up scyscrapers.

It was extremely hard though.

I'm a bit annoyed that they've just jumped on the call of duty bandwagon and made a second rate FPS intead of a real sequel

Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

223 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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motorizer said:
Syndicate wars was the first game I ever played where you could destroy absoulutely everything, in glorious 3D ..most games still dont have that now..way ahead of its time..I have fond memories of blowing up monorail tracks and watching as the train came crashing to earth...or blowing up scyscrapers.

It was extremely hard though.

I'm a bit annoyed that they've just jumped on the call of duty bandwagon and made a second rate FPS intead of a real sequel
I HAD to destroy every bank in the game. I felt compelled to loot as much money for my equipment as possible!

Loved Syndicate Wars.

Have absolutely no interest in another FPS game. And I think a lot of the gaming community feel the same.


EA are seriously starting get on my nerves with the amount of crap they spew out. Just look at the problems with BF3.

They seem to have this obsession for taking well loved gaming brands/ series.....and completely ruining them all in the name of making money.


Hopefully the development of Wasteland 2 will be a huge success and will show the gaming industry that they don't need big publishers like EA!

Moley RUFC

3,671 posts

218 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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That's a real downer that score above. Great memories of this on my Amiga 1200.

davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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I'm looking forward to the new XCOM game that's not an FPS. There is an FPS one coming too, but I think this one will be out first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown


Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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davepoth said:
I'm looking forward to the new XCOM game that's not an FPS. There is an FPS one coming too, but I think this one will be out first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown
woohoo

"All ground combat is completely turn-based, using an isometric 3D, third-person perspective tactical view featuring fog of war, line of sight, the "overwatch" reaction fire and destructive environment"

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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Used to love Syndicate on the PC...

Ston

636 posts

298 months

Thursday 22nd March 2012
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PintOfKittens

1,336 posts

219 months

Friday 23rd March 2012
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Famous Graham said:
davepoth said:
I'm looking forward to the new XCOM game that's not an FPS. There is an FPS one coming too, but I think this one will be out first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown
woohoo

"All ground combat is completely turn-based, using an isometric 3D, third-person perspective tactical view featuring fog of war, line of sight, the "overwatch" reaction fire and destructive environment"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uHHmTSDCvA if you havnt seen it...

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

Friday 23rd March 2012
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PintOfKittens said:
Famous Graham said:
davepoth said:
I'm looking forward to the new XCOM game that's not an FPS. There is an FPS one coming too, but I think this one will be out first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown
woohoo

"All ground combat is completely turn-based, using an isometric 3D, third-person perspective tactical view featuring fog of war, line of sight, the "overwatch" reaction fire and destructive environment"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uHHmTSDCvA if you havnt seen it...
Nice one, thanks smile